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When asked in whom the Imperial succession should now reside, he rapped: "Unquestionably in the Grand Duke Cyril! If it is a question of law-of right-he must be Tsar. Who else? The Grand Duke Nicholas...
...What is Cyril doing? He is not exactly doing-he is making propaganda. Only little pamphlets! Books are impossible-he can not get them into Russia. . . . We are good friends. Very often I go to see him and explain my ideas. He does not go so far toward Spirituality as I do-but more or less. He is more anxious to make propaganda and tell the people he is Tsar...
Nicholas & Cyril. Though the Grand Duke Alexander's words of last week were significant and prompt to the minute, His Imperial Highness naturally did not attempt to sketch the full background of the feuds between Nicholas and Cyril, which Death seemed about to end last week...
While the right of consanguinity is all on the side of Grand Duke Cyril, he has lost the allegiance of thousands of Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was later assassinated); 2) that as the revolution assumed an uglier phase Cyril was the only one of the Grand Dukes to proclaim himself "republican," and thus managed to remain snug in his palace at Petrograd, long after other Romanovs were exiled and many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril...
Even could these allegations be successfully disproved, that would not draw to Cyril the loyalty evoked from Russians by the sheer, heroic magnitude of the Grand Duke Nicholas. The glory of his early victories, and of his masterly retreat from Warsaw, is not dimmed by the fact that Nicholas II finally withdrew command of the Western Front from the Grand Duke. Stories are still told of the iron discipline which he kept, and of the wise and genuine humanity with which he tempered it. Like Napoleon he was loved because he inspired his men to march and fight to their...